Sagra dei Canederli

The GuardianJul 26

‘It’s like bringing the kitchen into the piazza’: seven of the best Italian village food festivals

Sagre – the historic local events that pop up in villages across the country in summer – are the perfect way to get a taste of regional cuisine and culture I cannot remember a summer when at least one evening hasn’t been spent following signs to a local sagra . Not quite a food market and not quite a village fete, a sagra is like a village moving its kitchen outdoors for a few nights. When I th…